Worried your lack of an MBA is going to keep you from that job you want? This MarketWatch.com profile of a Progressive Corp. executive might allay some of your worries.The piece essentially is a Q&A with Patricia Griffith, who in 24 years at Progressive “worked her way from claims representative to supervisor to regional manager and eventually to corporate claims process manager,” according to the story.“When an executive role opened in human resources, she figured without an M.B.A. or HR experience, she wouldn't get the job, so she didn't apply,” MarketWatch.com notes. But after a conversation with Progressive CEO Glenn Renwick, the website says, Ms. Griffith decided she was selling herself short."In my mind I always thought: Can I go this far with just an undergraduate degree?" she says. "But no one ever said that to me."She ended up getting the job and spent six years as head of HR before moving back to her first love and becoming the company's chief claims officer.Here's how Ms. Griffith describes the move from the claims department to chief human resources officer:It was really strange. I'd been in claims and done a couple of different things. The job came open and I knew Glenn (Renwick), the CEO, was looking internally and externally. I had no HR experience, none. A couple of people called me and said, 'You should go for that job, you're business savvy but you like people.' I didn't because I didn't want to be pretentious and go for something I never had experience in.But I got calls from 10 or 15 people from around the country that I'd worked with saying, "You should go for this." I had a long lunch with Glenn and he said, "Why don't you put your name in the hat?" I had three interviews with Glenn and other members of the team, and I got the job.“He saw something in me that I didn't see in myself, and it was kind of a fluke.”Exacting standardsOnShift Inc., a provider of staff scheduling and shift management software for the health care field, this week unveiled a product called Staff Exact, which it said “extends OnShift's scheduling capabilities by connecting staffing plans with resident acuity levels.”The company says Staff Exact offers four key advantages for users:

Improvement of care by accurately allocating staffing resources based on the acuity needs of residents;

Reduction of costs by eliminating staffing hours not required to deliver appropriate levels of care;

An increase of employee satisfaction and retention by avoiding understaffing and providing a more equitable workload distribution; and

A gain of transparency into how resident acuity variances affect labor costs.Good, but could be better
It you were paying attention to yesterday's action at the Republican National Convention, you must have noticed that jobs were high on the agenda of various speakers. But as The Los Angeles Timespoints out, the tone was not exactly what you might have expected to hear.“One by one, Republican governors of three presidential battleground states took the floor at the party's national convention and touted recent job gains in their states – not Mitt Romney's preferred message,” The Times reports.Ohio Gov. John Kasich was up first, touting the creation of 122,000 jobs since he took office in January 2011. That performance has helped Ohio rise to fourth in job creation from 48th, The Times says.Virginia's Bob McDonnell and Wisconsin's Scott Walker — both from swing states in the election — touted similar job gains.Realizing that their jobs records undercut somewhat the Romney argument that President Barack Obama is hostile to business and makes job creation difficult, the governors “took pains to stay on message by stressing how much better things could be if Romney was president.”Gov. Kasich, for instance, “held up Ohio as an example of what happens when Republican principles of limited government, lower taxes and decreased regulation are applied, saying Romney would do the same,” according to The Times.